Hi

I have not had my lapband yet, but I was wondering if any of you still enjoy Starbuck beverages with your band? You know the speciality drinks?

Well, I can tell you one thing. I refuse to give up my Starbucks or any expresso drink. I have cut wayyyyyyyyyy back on Starbucks though, because of the high fat and/or calories. But when I do have it, it is always only a tall mocha light frappucino, or a tall nonfat, 2 pump mocha with whip sometimes. Usually only on the weekends though. But only once or twice and sometimes not at all. During the week I just have a nonfat, sugar free mocha at java man by my work. They are the ONLY ones that have sugar free mochas and Starbucks has NEVER had sugar free mochas. Something needs to change there. ya think? LOL

Mocha my days!

Judy

In the winter I get a cafe misto with skim -- 12 g Protein and only 90 cals. In the summer, I get ice coffee -- no protein, but no cals either and it makes me HAPPY!

Hey Julie,

Long time no see! Way to go on your continued succesful weight loss! I am doing pretty good myself, but need another fill. Only had one so far. Still have a bad habit of grazing. But try to eat healthy.

Have a question for ya. How do you eat? Are you at your sweet spot now? Ok, more than one question...lol I have the VG band and I was only able to get 3.2cc instead of the usual 4cc on the first fill. I knew after about a week or so that I needed more restriction. But I did have some at different times during the early part of the day. Right now and all through the solid food phase, I have not eaten any or very little hamburger. Don't like it anymore. It doesn't chew down enough, so why bother. yuck!

Good to see ya again and able to pick your brain...lol I am so in awe of your success! Can you tell.

Take care,

Judy

I had a Starbucks iced coffee light . I found it at shoprite,in a can by the snapple drinks. It has 35 calories. serve over ice and oh my it was good .

I still enjoy Starbucks... my latest favorite is the sugar free vanilla frapaccino. I tell them to leave the whipped cream off and it still tastes delicous!

Hey this may be a dumb question but I noticed everyone saying decaf. So after you are banded you can have caffine???

My sister used to work at a Starbucks and she says that they have Protein powder (similar to the unjury I have just recently discovered), that you can have added to any drink!

Personally, I love the sugar-free non-fat Cinnamon Dolce lattes myself. 90 calories for a tall! I am going to try to get one of those with some Protein Powder added to it. That would make me very happy.

Have a question for ya. How do you eat? Are you at your sweet spot now? Ok, more than one question...lol I have the VG band and I was only able to get 3.2cc instead of the usual 4cc on the first fill. I knew after about a week or so that I needed more restriction.

Hey Judy! I'm on LBT almost every day, so feel free to PM me if you need me and don't see me on a thread you follow. To answer your questions, I'm slightly under my "sweet spot" because my doc felt my pouch wasn't emptying quite fast enough (for my yearly esophogram) and asked me to consider an unfill (just 0.5 cc), which I did, wishing to protect my band's long-term health. Anyway, it did make a difference in that I'm a little hungrier than I was for the 9 months I was at 9.5 (I'm at 9.0 now), but I'm also exercising a lot more, which contributes to the hunger. To stay on topic, I do find that a Starbucks ice coffee in the morning helps control my hunger. I think it's the caffiene. My eating is sporatic -- about 2 weeks out of the month, I'm hungrier than normal and I eat about 1500 cals/day (I'm running 35 miles a week training for my November marathon, so my body needs a little more). The other 2 weeks, I feel almost perfect -- I can eat whatever I want, I just don't think about food that much and have to remind myself to get in 1000 cals. Overall, I'm still losing about a pound a week, which is fine for this stage of the game. I'm planning a thigh lift for November, which will take off about 10 lbs as well. I figure wherever I am at the end of the year (be it the 130s or 140s) will be where I wind up, and that's totally fine with me.

I do confess after my 16 mile run on Sunday, I had a tall blueberries and cream frap from Starbucks. I wouldn't do that on a normal day, but after 16 miles I was looking to up my cals for the day to get to feeling back to normal, without putting stress on my pouch. YUM! I do see how those drinks can be addictive....

Take care!